Saʹker.

A piece of light artillery. The word is borrowed from the saker hawk. (See Falcon.)

“The cannon, blunderbuss, and saker,

He was the inventor of and maker.”


Butler: Hudibras, i. 2.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

St. Lundi (La)
St. Michael’s Chair
St. Monday
St. Simonism
St. Stephen’s
St. Stephen’s Loaves
St. Thomas’s Castle
St. Wilfrid’s Needle
Saints
Saivas
Saker
Sakhrat [Sak-rah]
Sakta
Sa-kuntala
Sakya-Muni
Sal Prunella
Salacacabia or Salacacaby of Apicius
Salace
Salad Days
Salamander
Salamander’s Wool

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